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Workshop on Bayesian Nonparametric Methods

Reading, England, July 23th to July 28 1999
 

Tentative Schedule of Events 

Friday 23 July 4.00 pm - Registration, St. George's Hall

Saturday 24 July  

9.00-1.00pm Session 1 
Chair: Paul Damien 

   Elja Arjas, Rolf Nevanlinna Institute, University of Helsinki, Finland;
   Nonparametric estimation of curves and surfaces: some practical
	considerations, with examples.

   Bani Mallick, Texas A&M, USA;
   Semiparametric Bayesian analysis using Polya trees

Tea/Coffee Interval (1 hr)

   Alan Gelfand* and Athanasios Kottas, University of Connecticut, USA;
   Nonparametric Bayesian Modelling for Probability Ordering.

1.00-4.00pm Lunch and break 

4.00-6.00pm Session 2 
Chair: Pietro Muliere 
 
   Susan Paddock* and Mike West, Duke University, USA;
   Randomized Polya Trees: Bayesian Nonparametrics for Multivariate Data 
 	Exploration.

   Deb Sinha, University of New Hampshire, USA;	 
   Practical semiparametric Bayesian survival analysis.

6.00-8.30pm Dinner 

  
Sunday 25 July 1995

9.00-1.00am Session 3
Chair: Guy Nason 

   Nils Hjort, University of Oslo, Norway;


   Michael Newton, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA;
   On a recursive algorithm to approximate Dirichlet process calculations.
    
Tea/Coffee interval (1 hr)

   David Denison, Imperial College, UK;


1.00-4.00pm Lunch and break  

4.00-6.00pm Session 4 
Chair: Michael Newton 

   Peter Mueller*, Fernando Quintana and Gary Rosner, Duke University, USA;
   Hierarchical Meta-Analysis over Related Non-parametric Models.

   Jim Berger* and Alessandra Guglielmi, Duke University, USA;
   Bayesian testing of a parametric model versus non-parametric alternatives.

6.00-8.30pm Dinner

9.00-11pm Poster Session.


Monday 26 July

9.00-1.00am Session 5 
Chair: Susan Paddock 

   Jean-Marie Rolin, UCL, Belgium;


   Prakash Laud, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA;
   Implementation of Bayesian Inference for Some Survival Models.

Tea/Coffee interval (1 hr)

   Bernard Silverman and Theofanis Sapatinas, University of Bristol, UK;


1.00-4.00pm Lunch and break  

4.00-6.00pm Session 6 
Chair: Bernard Silverman 

   Jean-Pierre Florens*, J-F. Richard and J-M. Rolin, Toulouse, France;
   Bayesian Encompassing Specification Tests of a Parametric Model 
	against a Non Parametric Alternative.

   Peter Lenk, University of Michigan, USA;
   Semiparametric density estimation and model verification.
	
6.00-8.30pm Dinner


Tuesday 27 July

9.00-1.00am Session 7 
Chair: Stephen Walker 

   R.V.Ramamoorthi, Michigan State University, USA;
   Some aspects of Beta processes.

   Paul Damien, University of Michigan, USA;
   Computation methods in Bayesian nonparametrics.	
  
Tea/Coffee interval (1 hr)
 
   Eugenio Regazzini, University of Pavia, Italy;
   On Mixtures Of Distributions Of Markov Chains.

1.00-4.00pm Lunch and break  

4.00-6.00pm Session 8 
Chair: Ed George

   Steve MacEachern, Ohio State Universiy, USA;
   Dependent Nonparametric Processes.

   Sonia Petrone, Varese, Italy;
   Bernstein  polynomial priors for univariate and multivariate data.

6.00-8.30pm Dinner


Wednesday 28 July

10.00-12.00am Session 9 
Chair:  Prakash Laud

   David Draper, University of Bath, UK;
   Practical experiences with Bayesian nonparametric modeling.

   Wes Johnson, University of California, Davis, USA;
	
  
12.00-2.00am Lunch

2.00-4.00am Session 10
Chair: Peter Lenk

   Pietro Muliere, University of Pavia, Italy;
   Constructing nonparametric priors for partially exchangeable sequences.
  
   Athanasios Kottas* and Alan E. Gelfand, University of Connecticut, USA;
   Bayesian semiparametric median regression modelling.

  



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